Tag: throat problems

• Choking Cats, Surgery Prep, and Heart Bushes – Thoughts from May 18, 2025

  

  It has been so long since I wrote my thoughts, I had to make a list of things I haven’t written about. First on the list is finishing painting the house. Let me say that again for those in the back. We finished painting the house! The last thing we did was put up new…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 13, 2026

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  2025, 3-D curved heart, 3-D modeling, 3-D sculture, angle cuts, asthma, cat mouth adapter, cats, choking, finishing painting the house, first surgery, general anesthetic, heart-shaped bush, inhalers, lawn work, learning experience, liquid medications, minor surgery, Patti, protractor, remodel, scared of surgery, squirting medication in cat’s mouth, table saw, ten-foot trim boards, thoughts, throat problems, throat surgery, to the vet, trimming bushes, Willow, Zoom appointment

• New Years, Old Jobs, and The Wedding Song – Thoughts from December 29, 2024 to January 26, 2025

  

  December 29, 2024 The year is ending in two days. There are several things I’m looking forward to in 2025. My last loan payment will be at the end of February. In March, I’ll have been at Disney for 20 years. That will mean my vacation and sick time earned will go up. When I…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 9, 2025

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  2024, 2025, all we need is time, allergies, allergy to wheat, artificial intelligence, artificial singers, backup singers, being busy, building the shed, cats, consequences, creating a harmony, Disney for 20 years, disposing old shed, electric guitar, extended deadline, fixing the house, food allergies, four cats, future note, general scratchy feeling in my throat, giant chocolate chip cookie, June 14 1997, lifetime pass to Disneyland, looking forward, lyrics, married, meatball sandwiches, mobile home, my AI voice could sing, no downtime, no more wheat, Patti, reality, recorded main voice, retirement, retiring, singing, strangers around the house, The Wedding Song, thoughts, Thoughts paper, throat problems, tired, wedding march, working on song

• First Surgeries, Allergies, and Pleasant Eating – Thoughts from November 2, 2024

  

  Before I left for work today, I got a call from Kaiser to schedule the appointment to treat my throat and plan the removal of the polyp on my vocal cord. Honestly, I didn’t know if I was going to be scheduling the procedure itself. I wasn’t. This is the checkup before the procedure. It…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 21, 2025

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  2024, alcoholics, all the milks, almond milk, beef, beer, checkup, coconut, dairy, eggs, future note, hair analyzed for allergies, high reactivity, Kaiser, minor surgery, moderate reactivity, mustard, my first surgery, no broken bones, no major health problems, no reactivity, Oranges lemons and duck, pecans, pleasurable eating, reactivity test, remove the polyp on my vocal cord, restrictions on my diet, satisfied, smokers, taking health seriously, thoughts, throat problems, tomatoes, unpleasant surprise, veal, vegan diet, wheat, wheat is a major ingredient, work

• Route 66, Historic Stops, and Roadkill Burgers – Thoughts from September 20, 2024

  

  Patti and I woke up in the Jack Oakie room of the El Rancho hotel in Gallop, New Mexico. We got a late checkout, so we didn’t have to be out until noon. We took showers in the awkward bathroom and collected our luggage, large snack bag, cooler, and other assorted items back into the…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 23, 2025

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  2024, Arizona, awkward bathroom, beer, being stuffed, bikers, Bird That Smacked the Curb, buffalo meat, cooler, El Rancho hotel, elk meat, face mask in bed, Farm Burger, Gallop New Mexico, Gateway to the Grand Canyon, heading home, in bed with cats, Jack Oakie room, Lake Havasu City, large snack bag, late checkout, locals, luggage, menu of stories, natural history museum, OK Saloon, Patti, posing dead animals, Reuben sandwich, Roadkill Cafe, Route 66, science, Seligman Arizona, sit anywhere, sit anywhere motto, Swirl of Squirrel, taxidermy animals, Texas toast, thoughts, throat and sinus problems, throat problems, time change, tourists, traveling the highway, vegans, wasn’t out kind of place, Williams Arizona, You Kill It We Grill It

• Fires, Professor Sprout, and the NME Charts – Thoughts from September 7 and 8, 2024

  

  September 7, 2024 There are flames in the hills near our house. Only a freeway separates our house from the evacuation area. Patti is home and freaking out. She can still see the flames from our house. My sixth-grade teacher showed a picture from his front yard of the smoke billowing up as if from…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 12, 2025

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  2020, 2023, 2024, 83 years old, A-holes on the freeway, artsy songs, audiobooks, being a lesbian, being Jewish, British artists, distraction, documentary, Duran Duran, evacuation area, expectations of the world, expecting each day to be the same, fear of thunder, few filters, fires, Harry Potter, liberally opinionated, living alone, magazine from the UK, Miriam Gargolyes, negative or positive opinions, new music, New Musical Express, NME charts, no belief in God, Patti, Pixies, problems to solve, Professor Spout, radio listening, rare events, refusing to leave, seeing flames from our house, Simon Le Bon, sing along with songs, smoke billowing up, songs in stereo, swearing, thoughts, throat problems, thunderstorms, top 100 albums of all time, Velvet Underground

• Creativity and Shyness – Thoughts from August 19 and 31, 2024

  

  August 19, 2024 I’ve talked with several people about my throat. I told them about the polyp on my vocal cords. The singer I talked to said she has had them on her vocal cords. She had them removed with surgery. A former nurse said trying the dietary changes made sense before going right for…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 29, 2025

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  2024, animations, autism, autobiographies, balsa wood, being gay, being shy, building things, creating candles, creating crap, creating songs, creative pursuits, creative skills, depression, dietary changes, drawings, encouraging environment, encouraging parents, encouraging people, experimental ideas, hippies, introduced myself, LGBTQ, musical creations, new person at work, new situations, painting ceramics, polyp on my vocal cord, shyness bubble, signs of autism, singing, singing too much, surgery, thinking is my favorite hobby, thoughts, Thoughts paper, throat problems, vocal cords, Wordscapes, Wordscapes tournament, writing, writings

• Writing Thoughts and Me – Thoughts from July 8 to 14, 2024

  

  July 8, 2024 There’s been a rumor that this is my last Thoughts paper. I just want to state for the record that I still have thoughts I write down and I don’t see an end to them anytime soon. Who started the rumor is not important. Why they started the rumor is more relevant…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 3, 2025

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  2024, autobiagraphy, average height, average looks, average white man, big nose, blind without glasses, camera down my throat, curious what authors look like, deaf dumb and blind kid, deaf in one ear, ears stick out, graying hair, inner thoughts, interesting paragraphs, laughing at my flesh, life experience, living in the past, meeting expectations, midlife, motives, my surface level self, near sighted, outer appearance, paragraphs, Patti, Pete Townsend, point of living, product of the times, questioning your purpose, reading, receding hair, Roger Daltrey, rumor free, rumors, sentences, shampoo with dye, sore throat, The Who, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, Thoughts paper, throat cancer, throat problems, throat specialist, unprecedented times, wearing glasses, weight, Wordscapes, writing, you can only live in the present